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19-10-2025 Vol 19

Month: August 2025

Moviehouse on the Edge: IFC Center Picks 20 Films to Commemorate 20 Years in New York

The IFC Center, a five-screen art house cinema in New York’s West Village, is celebrating its 20th anniversary by showing…

Venice Film Festival 2025: Ghost Elephants, Jay Kelly, Bugonia, Cover-Up, After the Hunt

Once again it is my pleasure and my privilege to be reporting to you from Venice, where the Cinema Biennale,…

Caught Stealing Review: Darren Aronofsky Blends a Zany Caper with His Customary Brutality

Hank Thompson (Austin Butler) was born and bred San Francisco Giants baseball. Named after one of the most significant Giants…

Telluride Review: This is Not a Drill Offers a Sharp Highlight of Climate Activists Who Still Fight

About an hour into This is Not a Drill, the new documentary from director Oren Jacoby, comes a moment that…

Telluride Review: Ballad of a Small Player is a Delicious, Nasty Exuberance

In Ballad of a Small Player, we are given the gift of Colin Farrell overdoing it. Nobody overdoes it like…

Telluride Review: Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere Features Great Performances Inside Stagnant Frames

The line “you did the best you could” is spoken at a crucial moment in Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere.…

Venice Review: Cover-Up Is the Most Important American Documentary of the Year

Three years after Venice welcomed (and awarded the Golden Lion to) Laura Poitras’s documentary about artist and activist Nan Goldin, All…

Time for Kick-Off: The 11 Best Football Movies (and Where to Watch Them)

Ask 100 fans to name their favorite football movie, and you’ll probably get at least 30 different responses, from comedy-dramas…

The Best American Actor of His Generation: David Strathairn on “A Little Prayer”

Two years ago, when Angus MacLachlan’s “A Little Prayer” premiered at Sundance Film Festival 2023, it did so with a…

NYC Weekend Watch: New Orleans, Shinji Sōmai, Charlie Chaplin & More

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Museum of Modern ArtA series on New Orleans before, during,…